"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities."

"I burn, I pine, I perish."

"Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherina: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is, then, to pluck it out. Katherina: Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherina: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherina: Yours, if you talk of tales; and so farewell. Petruchio: What! with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman. Katherina: That I'll try. [Striking him.] Petruchio: I swear I'll cuff you if you strike again. Katherina: So may you lose your arms: If you strike me, you are no gentleman; And if no gentleman, why then no arms."

"I have them at my fingers' ends."

"I see that Time's the king of men, For he's their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave."

"Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen, That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, Envy the great, nor do the low despise."

"I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly."

"An arrow shot From a well-experienc’d archer hits the mark His eye doth level at."

"How many things by season season’d are To their right praise and true perfection! Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awaked."

"3 Fisherman: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1 Fisherman: Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones."

"Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror."

"Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed."

"I was not born under a rhyming planet."

"Done to death by slanderous tongues."

"This night methinks is but the daylight sick."

"The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended"

"Don Pedro: Officers, what offence have these men done? Dogberry: Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves. Don Pedro: First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I ask thee what’s their offence; sixth and lastly, why they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay to their charge."

"Get thee a wife, get thee a wife: there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn."

"Let the world slide."

"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance."

"Therein do men from children nothing differ."

"Some of us will smart for it."

"Charm ache with air, and agony with words."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

"’Tis all men’s office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency, To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself."

"In a false quarrel there is no true valour."

"I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice."

"Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword, And won thy love, doing thee injuries."

"Patch grief with proverbs."

"A substitute shines brightly as a king, Until a king be by."

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted."

"A light wife doth make a heavy husband."

"Men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel."

"What though care killed a cat."

"I’ll not budge an inch."

"Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before 'em?"

"Malvolio – steward in Olivia's household"

"Is our whole dissembly appeared?"

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?"

"Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly."

"For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack’d and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours."

"I am content."

"The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination; And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell’d in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul."

"Yea, marry, that's the eftest way."

"O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!"

"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!"

"I never tempted her with word too large; But, as a brother to his sister, show’d Bashful sincerity and comely love."

"He is well paid that is well satisfied."

"Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that; You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live."

"A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out."